Computerized Assessment of Social Information Processing

描述（由申请人提供）：本拨款申请的目的是开发一个音频计算机辅助自我访谈（audio- casi）软件包，以评估儿童的社会信息处理能力。过去20年的研究已经建立了社会信息处理技能缺陷与青少年攻击行为之间的一致关系。此外，目前大多数旨在预防或治疗儿童或青少年攻击行为的循证项目都是以SIP模型为基础的（Crick & Dodge, 1994），并包括社会认知干预技术。尽管攻击性研究取得了这些进展，但目前还没有标准的、规范的、具有已知心理特征的SIP技能测量方法。因此，心理健康专业人员和研究人员无法获得最先进的措施来评估其干预措施的有效性或建立与社会认知功能相关的治疗目标。目前的提案旨在通过创建专业质量的软件和视频片段来评估儿童社会信息处理的多个阶段，从而开始填补这些空白。第一阶段包括关于产品开发和产品测试的两组基本目标。该产品开发的目标包括，为二年级到五年级的男孩创造一些常见误解的小插图；与2 ~ 5年级男演员一起制作具有专业水准的、包含暧昧意图的社交场景的数字视频剪辑；设计评估问题，可靠有效地评估社会信息处理的多个方面；开发音频计算机辅助自我面试管理软件；为SIP措施创建评分算法；撰写临床报告，总结评估结果并提供对软件响应的临床意义；开发有吸引力的、用户友好的、适合发展和文化的计算机软件，其中包括视频短片、评估项目、评分算法和报告组件，以评估小学适龄男孩的SIP。产品测试的目标包括在青少年中试用视频剪辑和音频- casi软件，以确定适当性、清晰度、兴趣和有效性；并对一小部分试点数据样本进行定量分析。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this grant proposal is to develop an audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) software package for assessing the social information processing in children. Research over the past 20 years has established a consistent relationship between social information processing (SIP) skill deficits and aggressive behavior in youth. In addition, the majority of current evidence-based programs designed to prevent or treat aggressive behavior in children or adolescents are predicated on the SIP model (Crick & Dodge, 1994) and include social cognitive intervention techniques. Despite these advances in the study of aggression, there currently exist no standardized, normed measures of SIP skills with known psychometric properties. Thus, mental health professionals and researchers do not have access to state-of-the-art measures to assess the effectiveness of their interventions or to establish treatment goals related to social cognitive functioning. The current proposal is designed to begin to fill these gaps by creating professional quality software and video clips to assess multiple stages of social information processing in children. Phase I includes two basic sets of aims regarding product development and then product testing. The product development aims include creating vignette scripts of common misunderstandings among 2nd-to 5th-grade boys; creating professional quality, digital video clips of social situations containing ambiguous intent with 2nd-5th grade male actors; designing assessment questions to reliably and validly assess multiple aspects of social information processing; creating software for audio computer-assisted self-interviewing administration; creating scoring algorithms for the SIP measures; writing clinical report shells that will summarize assessment findings and provide clinical implications for responses to the software; and developing attractive, user-friendly, developmentally and culturally appropriate computer software that incorporates video vignettes, assessment items, scoring algorithms and reporting components to assess SIP in elementary school-aged boys. The product testing aims include piloting video clips and audio-CASI software with youth to determine appropriateness, clarity, interest, and effectiveness; and to conduct quantitative analyses on a small sample of pilot data.